Angela Winkler won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for the 1983 German psychological thriller film Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary]. Patricia Highsmith hated the film of her admired novel: ‘a lot of […]
Aliens crash land near a hospital and mount a night attack on an English village, in the surprisingly sprightly and inventive British 1965 sci-fi film Invasion. Director Alan Bridges’s eerie 1965 Merton Park Studios low-budget British science […]
The understandably hard-to-please Patricia Highsmith approved of Hans W Geißendörfer’s gratifying 1978 West German crime film version of her 1964 masterwork novel The Glass Cell. Director Hans W Geißendörfer’s Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] […]
The 1942 wartime morale booster British film Tomorrow We Live [At Dawn We Die] stars John Clements, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair and Yvonne Arnaud. It shows the French Resistance at work and the Germans shooting […]
The 2000 murder mystery film Lord Edgware Dies is based on the 1933 novel by Agatha Christie, with a screenplay by Anthony Horowitz, and stars David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Director Brian Farnham’s 2000 murder mystery […]
Austin Trevor makes a decent, convincingly meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the 1934 murder mystery film Lord Edgware Dies, based on the 1933 novel by Agatha Christie. Director Henry Edwards’s 1934 murder mystery film […]
Alfred Hitchcock produced a 1932 mystery drama film titled Lord Camber’s Ladies, which stars his great friend Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence and Nigel Bruce. It is the only film Hitchcock produced but did not […]
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